3rd millennium BC in music
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3rd millennium BC in music - 2nd millennium BC in music - 1st millennium BC in music
Events
- c. 3000 BC - The invention of the castanets in Early Dynastic Egypt.[1]
- c. 2800 BC - The invention of the clapper, a basic form of percussion instrument, in Early Dynastic Egypt.[2]
- c. 2800 BC - The invention of the harp and the lyre in Mesopotamia.[3][4]
- c. 2686-2181 BC - The invention of the Sistrum, a musical instrument of the percussion family.[5]
- c. 2600 BC - The creation of Standard of Ur which includes soundbox of a musical instrument[6][7]
- c. 2550–2450 BC - The invention of the Bull Headed Lyre of Ur, string instrument used in Mesopotamia.
- c. 2550–2450 BC - The invention of the Lyres of Ur, a stringed musical instrument from the Early Dynastic III Period of Mesopotamia.[8]
- c. 2500 BC - Around ninety royal servants—including soldiers, grooms, and female musicians—were buried alive in the tomb of a royal couple in Ur.[3][9]
- c. 2500 BC - The invention of thin lyres in northern Syria.[10]
- c. 2500 BC - The invention of thick lyres in Uruk and Susa.[10]
- c. 2300 BC - The earliest known composer is born, Enheduanna, priestess of the moon god Nanna (Sīn).[7]
- c. 2200 BC - A song was composed during the Old Kingdom of Egypt and subsequently buried in a tomb.[10]
See also
- Timeline of musical events
References
- ↑ "The Music of Antiquity" (in en). https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/the-music-of-antiquity.
- ↑ Sachs, Curt (2012-09-19) (in en). The History of Musical Instruments. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-17151-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=W615TIDz97UC.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "3100-1000 BCE" (in en). doi:10.1093/acref/9780191735363.timeline.0001. https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191735363.timeline.0001.
- ↑ (in en) lyre, Philip's, 2004, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199546091.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-954609-1, https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199546091.001.0001/acref-9780199546091-e-7001, retrieved 2024-10-07
- ↑ "Sistrum: The Sacred Shaker in Ancient Egyptian Rituals - Golden Musical Instruments" (in en-US). 2023-12-08. https://goldenscissors.info/sistrum-the-sacred-shaker-in-ancient-egyptian-rituals/#:~:text=The%20use%20of%20sistrum%20in,music,%20dance,%20and%20fertility..
- ↑ "British Museum - The Standard of Ur". 2015-10-29. https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/t/the_standard_of_ur.aspx.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Music on Earth" (in en). 2020-02-02. https://brianjump.net/2020/02/01/music-on-earth/.
- ↑ Michael Chanan (1994). Musica Practica: The Social Practice of Western Music from Gregorian Chant to Postmodernism. Verso. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-85984-005-4.
- ↑ Darvill, Timothy (2009-01-01), "Ur, Iraq" (in en), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (Oxford University Press), doi:10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-953404-3, https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199534043.001.0001/acref-9780199534043-e-4440, retrieved 2024-10-07
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Music". https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/music.htm.
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